Quotes About Examination

You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.

I'm the kind of person that wants to analyze and I think having a background in, strangely enough, in like literature and languages, I'm always analyzing things.

Never, never, never on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby food. Do it, and you'll often get an answer you don't want.

...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits

Those who genuinely want to help the movement should study the rich and powerful, not the poor and powerless...The poor and powerless already know what is wrong with their lives and those who want to help them should analyse the forces that keep them where they are. Better a sociology of the Pentagon or the Houston country club than of single mothers or inner-city gangs.

this is cherries, too. (looking again) I declare I believe that's the only one.

It's what I lost. I could see him turning the sentence around in his head. Examining it as he would a wound or an illness. And I saw in his eyes the moment he realized that fixers like him and me can easily mend broken things. But we can't easily find lost things. Finding something you lost takes a different kind of skill.

It was as if he were daring me to look at him . . . and tell him what I saw.

he moved the flashlight beam around he realized there

The need for a detailed, comprehensive examination of the Saturn system became clear during the early 1980s, after the two Voyager spacecraft made flybys of the planet. These celebrated events were the opening acts in the story of humanity's exploration of Saturn.

In the end, so much of what I wanted to do was to have a body of work that exhaustively looked at black American notions of masculinity: how we look at black men - how they're perceived in public and private spaces - and to really examine that, going from every possible angle.

To understand how something works, figure out how to break it.

the studious examination of the past in the greatest of detail does not teach you much about the mind of History; it only gives you the illusion of understanding it.

Give me a few lines written by any man and I will find enough to get him hung

when it's officially allowed through a one-way mirror, it's not called spying. It's called surveillance.

I have yet to decide what is to be learned from this region. Further study is necessary.

And I have faith that you will shine in your final test.

We have set our hearts so completely on becoming worldly-wise, we have overstrained our microscopes to such an extent for the purpose of examining the ghastly protuberances and shameful blemishes with which we are covered and which we joyfully cultivate, that it is not possible for us to speak the language of common men. They live to live and we, alas, we live to understand.

Skepticism is always a good first response.

From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about.

Reading accounts is dull; economic detective work is the easy way to get to the same conclusion.